The problem with Jacobin is basically a problem of editorship. At its best, it does great work. I am real proud of my small part of the history of the CIO podcast they are hosting, for instance. When you have serious historians in charge of...
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This is the grave of Jim Backus. Born in 1913 in Cleveland, Backus grew up in the upper middle class world of that city's eastern suburbs, which are still pretty.
This is the grave of Merv Griffin. Born in 1925 in San Mateo, California, Griffin grew up wealthy, the son of a stockbroker. Despite being Irish, he managed to be.
This is the grave of Jack Barry. Born in 1918 in Lindenhurst, New York, Jack Barasch grew up in a Jewish immigrant family. He was a good student and went to the University of Pennsylvania for college. It was the Wharton School, a plague upon...
Wow, a huge loss to the world of comedy and to the world of weird 60s America. And of course the politics of the Smothers Brothers were all the way.
This is the grave of Carroll O'Connor. Born in 1924 in Manhattan, O'Connor grew up pretty wealthy. His father was a lawyer. His brothers became doctors, but he would be.
We should at least have a quick thread on Norman Lear. He's really so astonishing. He was 70s TV. Almost every great show of that decade came from him. And these shows--I mean, for the first time ever and it never has really happened since,...
This is the grave of Estelle Getty. Born in 1923 in New York, Estelle Scher grew up in the Jewish middle class of that time. Her parents had immigrated from.
This is the grave of Al Simon. Born in 1911 in New York, Simon went to Columbia, got a lit degree, then went to NYU for law school. He got.
This is the grave of Tim Conway. Born Thomas Conway in 1933 outside of Cleveland, the future Tim was half-Irish, half-Romanian, and thus all Catholic. In fact, he was known as Toma as a kid, which is the Romanian version of Thomas. He became Tim...
Hee Haw is probably the worst show in human history, although it did make Buck Owens a ton of money, which was the only thing he loved more than country.
This would be a horrible loss to the film community. It’s not every day that Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson team up. But IndieWire has learned they.